Journals in writing development

It's been a challenge to me writing the daily journals required by professor Christina, as I don't have the habit of writing it's been difficult for me to organize ideas and write about something new everyday, this task helped me to think critically about my development as a teacher, I really need to increase the frequency of writing. The journals usually are about something we just had contact with, and it turns the task even more challenging, sometimes it forces us to look for more information about those topics, and improve more our knowledgment. I really intend to keep on making journals in order to develop my writing skills and be able to write good texts.

Grammar micro-teaching

          Teaching grammar is always a complex task, it does not mater if it is an easy topic or a complex set of rules.  As a teacher, every time I have to prepare a grammar class I try to be as meticulous as possible, I mean, there's no space for bad options here, the way we plan the class needs to attend perfectly the students necessities, all the steps of the class might by developed in a way the students feel involved on it and we, teachers, have to balance the grammar topic not to be too much explicit and also find a way to explain it which the students will be able to understand in a meaningful way.
          The micro-teaching we presented last week challenged us to develop a class using one grammar topic and use activities, methods and even approaches that we don't usually apply in our regular classes, I tried to use activities that are totally possible to be applied in my classrooms in Brazil, I had a great time preparing it and sharing with my friends my ideas for the class, showing them my progress and at the same time, also help them with my experience. This micro-teaching activity helped me a lot to find new ideas that I will certainly use to improve my classes.